en, I believe ...
She merely now was amiable and witty.

Byron, _Don Juan_, xii. 43, 47 (1824).

=Pinchwife= (_Mr._), the town husband of a raw country girl, wholly
unpractised in the ways of the world, and whom he watches with ceaseless
anxiety.

Lady Drogheda ... watched her town husband assiduously as Mr.
Pinchwife watched his country wife.--Macaulay.

_Mrs. Pinchwife_, the counterpart of Moli[`e]re's "Agnes," in his comedy
entitled _L'['e]cole des Femmes_. Mrs. Pinchwife is a young woman wholly
unsophisticated in affairs of the heart.--Wycherly, _The Country Wife_
(1675).

[Asterism] Garrick altered Wycherly's comedy to _The Country Girl_.

=Pindar= (_Peter_), the pseudonym of Dr. John Wolcot (1738-1819).

_Pindar_ (_The British_), Thomas Gray (1716-1771). On his monument in
Westminster Abbey is inscribed these lines:

No more the Grecian muse unrivalled reigns;
To Britain let the nations homage pay:
She felt a Homer's fire in Milton's strains,
A Pindar's rapture in the lyre of Gray.

_Pindar_ (_The French_), (1) Jean Dorat (1507-1588); (2) Ponce Denis
Lebrun (1719-1807).

_Pindar_ (_The Italian_), Gabriello Chiabrera (1552-1637).

=Pindar of England.= Cowley was preposterously called by the duke of
Buckingham "The Pindar, Horace and Virgil of England." Posterity has
not endorsed this absurd eulogium (1618-1667).

=Pindar of Wakefield= (_The_), George-a-Green, pinner of the town of
Wakefield--that is, keeper of the public pound for the confinement of
estrays.--_The History of George-a-Green, Pindar of the Town of
Wakefield_ (time, Elizabeth).

=Pindo'rus and Aride'us=, the two heralds of the Christian army in the
siege of Jerusalem.--Tasso, _Jerusalem Delivered_ (1575).

=Pine-Bender= (_The_), Sinis, the Corinthian robber who used to fasten his
victims to two pine trees bent towards the earth, and leave them to be
torn to pieces by the rebound.

=Pingree= (_Nancy_), called "Old Lady Pingree" because of her pride and
black lace turban. She lives by herself in the lower part of the old
Pingree house, and is so poor that to give an egg to the lodgers above
stairs is an act of self-denying generosity. She has money and
burial-clothes laid away for her funeral, yet when the neighbor upstairs
dies, Nancy "lends" it to the daughter to keep her mother out of the
Potter's field. A sudden rise in property brings Nancy a few hundreds,
and enables her to fa